New Delhi: The eighth season of 'Koffee with Karan' dropped on Thursday (October 26) with power couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh as the first guest of the season. Deepika spoke about her mental health journey on the show and also shared how Ranveer has been there for her throughout even when he didn’t understand much about mental illness and what a caregiver needs to do.
While speaking about her battle with mental illness, Deepika shared that Ranveer always created a ‘safe space’ for her to communicate and not hesitate to be vulnerable.
“I think he understands mental illness today slightly better than he did back then. The fact that he created a safe space for me to be able to be vulnerable, to be able to share, to be able to communicate because a lot of times you are just feeling so many things, you don’t know how to articulate it. He never said ‘let’s go for a drive’ or ‘let’s play some music’ but instead, he was always there patiently. He didn’t know better. He’s learnt over a period of time how to be a caregiver but at that moment, we were all going through it for the first time,” she told Karan.
Ranveer also recalled an incident from 2014 when Deepika called him and said, “I have had a blackout and I have had a fall can you come home?” Ranveer then rushed to her and remembering the day he said, “When I went and saw her, something wasn’t right. She wasn’t all there.”
The actor also recalled an incident when Deepika was crying at the breakfast table. “I knew this was a very serious problem when at breakfast one day, she was sitting across from me and she was just crying and there were just tears, copious tears flowing down and at a human level, the most basic question is ‘kya hua baby?’ and she also doesn’t know what to say. She said ‘I don’t know’,” he said. He also got a little emotional while remembering how he felt helpless that day and eventually called Deepika’s mother and asked her to come.
Deepika then shared that her mother instantly knew after seeing her condition that she needs professional help and from there her journey of battling mental illness started.